My name is
Elin and I was placed in a retirement home called Billingshäll at Kävlinge. I
think it is a very good idea with practicing during your education because we
get into it and look upon it from another point of view and not just read
books. You don’t really know if you’re going to like to do this kind of work after
you finish school by only reading about it.
I enjoyed
the retirement home very much because the people working there were very kind
and thus I really liked them. They were very nice against me and the old
people. I became one of them fast.
I learnt a
lot, I can’t remember everything but I’ll try to write it all down. I learnt
how to talk and use the right voice tone to the different old men and women. I
learnt how to take care of them and how to wash them and how to change diapers
on them. I also learnt how to feed them. And I learnt how to take care of a
person with certain needs. I learnt how to make porridge. And I learnt to wash their faces and take care
of their teeth and dentures.
A special
thing that happened to me was when an old woman that I was kind of close to
fell and hurt her lung so badly that the lung was punctured. And my supervisor
asked me to stay with her in her room until the ambulance arrived, and so I
did. I was sitting beside her on the side of her bed and held her hand and she
said to me ‘Don’t leave me’. Tome it felt like she trusted me and it was a big
moment for me. This made a great impact on me.
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